Wednesday, May 28, 2008

What is Yoga?

Yoga is one of the six schools of Hindu way of life, focusing on meditation as a pathway to self-knowledge and freedom. Yoga is seen as a means to normally physiological and spiritual mastery. Outside India, Yoga has occur to chiefly related with the practice of asanas of Hatha Yoga, although it has influenced the complete dharmic religions family and other spiritual practices throughout the world

About 5,000 year old carvings from the Indus Valley Civilization indicate a figure that archaeologists believe represents a yogi sitting in thought posture. The sitting in a conventional cross-legged yoga pose with its hands and resting on its knees. The explorer of the seal, archaeologist Sir John Marshall, named as the figure Shiva Pashupati.

A seal from the Indus Valley Civilization, The first recognized written reference to yoga is in the Rig Veda, predictable by the western scholars to be at least 3,500 years old. The Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali also communicate the concepts and teachings of yoga.

1 comment:

Tansau said...

Yoga is also often translated as "Union," and implies union of body, mind and spirit -- typified by the coordination of attention, breath and body in Hatha Yoga -- or union of the inner Self with the Divine, called Samadhi by Patanjali.

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